Official Site:www.blindness-themovie.com
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Writer(s): Jose Saramago and Don Mckellar
Producer(s): Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Niv Fichman, and Sonoko Sakai
Starring: Julianne Moore as Doctor's wife, Danny Glover as Man with eye patch, Mark Ruffalo as Doctor, Alice Braga as Woman with dark glasses, Gael Garcia Bernard as king of ward three, and Yusuke Iseya as first blind man(IMDb).Rated-R 120 minutes.
Mysteriously the film begins with an Asian man who is causing traffic on account of sudden blindness. After being accompanied by an altruistic man ,who later becomes blind, the Asian man, hours later, along with his wife went to see a doctor who could not provide a diagnosis as to the cause of the blindness. The following morning the doctor became blind along with an increasing number of people who were ultimately sequestered into a ward where they had to struggle to survive.
The acting was amazing. The desperation of the people who were subject to the blindness was conveyed well. Julianne Moore was riveting and brave in he role as the doctor's wife. Speaking of doctors, Ruffalo was just right for the part of the soft spoken but logical would be leader. Glover as the wise and gentle man was also testimony of good casting.
Certain scenes in this film made me so uncomfortable, not because they were bad because they were crafted in tuned with situations and conditions that would challenge our morals. Such scenes beg the question, does morality or survival take precedence in the midst of uncomprisable circumstances? This was one those films where as a movie watcher one could not help but feel intense sympathy toward some of the characters. According to Metacritic.com the film received mixed reviews. I like this film. B+. Stay tuned, Movieporium.blogspot.com.
